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Christopher Voigt – MIT Team Builds Most Complex Synthetic Biology Circuit Yet
Christopher A. Voigt | Via CSBI @ MIT | October 7, 2012Using genes as interchangeable parts, synthetic biologists design cellular circuits that can perform new functions, such as sensing environmental conditions. However, the complexity that can be achieved in such circuits has been limited by a critical bottleneck: the difficulty in assembling genetic components that don’t interfere with each other. Unlike electronic circuits on a silicon […]
Team with U of L Researcher Rides NASA’s ‘Vomit Comet’ to Test Zero-Gravity Surgery Device
George Pantalos | Via The Courier-Journal | October 5, 2012What happens when astronauts are hurtling toward Mars on a years-long space voyage and one is injured, requiring emergency surgery in a environment lacking gravity? It may sound like science fiction, but it’s one of the challenges NASA faces in its goal of putting astronauts on Mars by 2035. And it has spurred a University […]
Researchers Test Zero-Gravity Surgery Device
George Pantalos | Via USA Today | October 5, 2012What happens when astronauts are hurtling toward Mars on a years-long space voyage and one is injured, requiring emergency surgery in a environment lacking gravity? It may sound like science fiction, but it’s one of the challenges NASA faces in its goal of putting astronauts on Mars by 2035. And it has spurred a University […]
Watch Passenger plane Crash in Desert
Cynthia A. Bir | Via CNN | October 2, 2012The Discovery Channel crashes a Boeing 727 into the desert on purpose to demonstrate how to survive a plane accident.
Wayne State Prof Crashes Airplane For Science
Cynthia A. Bir | Via CBS Detroit | October 1, 2012Wayne State University professor and biomedical engineering researcher Cynthia Bir specializes in impacts. But her latest project undoubtedly produced the biggest bang of her career. Back in April, teamed with an international team of researchers, pilots and aircraft safety experts, Bir crashed a full-size passenger airplane into the remote desert along the U.S.-Mexico border, all in […]
National Academy of Engineering Honors Nicholas Peppas with Founders Award | McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering
Nicholas Peppas | Via Cockrell School of Engineering | October 1, 2012The National Academy of Engineering has selected Nicholas Peppas as its 2012 Founders Award recipient in recognition of his pioneering work in the areas of polymer chemistry, bioengineering, pharmaceutical sciences and advanced drug delivery. Peppas is the chair of the Cockrell School of Engineering Biomedical Engineering Department, and he holds the Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair […]
Space Surgery Possible with Zero-Gravity Tool
George Pantalos | Via New Scientist | September 29, 2012Draining an infected abscess on Earth is a straightforward procedure. On a spaceship travelling to the moon or Mars, it could kill everyone on board. Blood and bodily fluids cannot be contained in zero gravity, which means there is currently no way to perform surgery in space without contaminating the cabin. This makes an extended […]
Early Cancer Detection Technology Gets NIH Funds
Lonnie Shea | Via Northwestern University | September 28, 2012Two Northwestern University faculty members have received a prestigious 2012 NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop technology to detect cancer metastasis at its earliest stages, allowing for life-preserving interventions. The NIH this month awarded approximately $155 million to 81 researchers across the country through its High Risk-High […]
Bill Murphy Named Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center Co-Director
William L. Murphy | Via University of Wisconsin Engineering | September 28, 2012Biomedical Engineering and Orthopedics and Rehabilitation Associate Professor Bill Murphy has been named co-director of the UW-Madison Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center. He joins Timothy Kamp, professor of cardiovascular medicine, at the helm. Murphy served on the SCMRC’s first executive committee in 2007. More recently, as associate director, he led the formation of new […]
Dr David Vorp Appointed Associate Dean for Research
David Vorp | Via University of Pittsburgh Engineering | September 27, 2012David A. Vorp, PhD, William Kepler Whiteford Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering, has been appointed Associate Dean for Research at the Swanson School, effective October 15, 2012. Dr. Vorp succeeds Mark Redfern, PhD, who was named as Pitt’s Vice Provost for Research in August 2012. “On behalf of […]
New Way of Fighting High Cholesterol Upends Assumptions
Shankar Subramaniam | Via UC San Diego | September 27, 2012Atherosclerosis – the hardening of arteries that is a primary cause of cardiovascular disease and death – has long been presumed to be the fateful consequence of complicated interactions between overabundant cholesterol and resulting inflammation in the heart and blood vessels. However, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the […]
UConn Scientists Team Up to Conduct New Cancer Research
Diane Burgess | Via UConn Today | September 27, 2012Three cross-disciplinary teams of UConn researchers from the Storrs campus and the Health Center in Farmington recently received two-year start-up grants of $100,000 from the University to pursue their work. The funding through the University of Connecticut Health Center/Storrs and Regional Campus Incentive Grants (UCIG) program, are meant to support interdisciplinary, inter-campus research proposals that […]
With $6M Grant, UC San Diego Bioengineers Take On Key Role in New NIH Common Funds Metabolomics Program
Shankar Subramaniam | Via UC San Diego | September 21, 2012With a $6 million grant over five years, bioengineers from the University of California, San Diego will play a central role in a new program from theNational Institutes of Health (NIH) to accelerate “metabolomics”, an emerging field of biomedical research that offers a path to a wealth of information about a person’s nutrition, infection, health, […]
Collaborative Team Develops New Astro Surgery Tools for NASA Deep Space Missions
George Pantalos | Via Carnegie Mellon Engineering | September 20, 2012Move over “Bones” McCoy. Future voyages of the starship Enterprise just might include astro surgery as this dynamic discipline jumps from the pages of fiction to reality. A team of biomedical engineering researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Louisville are developing surgical tools that could be used for future expeditionary spaceflights to […]
Getting Jazzed About High-Tech Healthcare
Michael Harsh | Via Business Innovation Factory | September 19, 2012When Mike Harsh came to work as an electrical design engineer at GE Healthcare in 1979, he planned to stay for two years and move on to something else. That was 33 years ago, and he’s still “jazzed” about the place. “It feels like I just started, and today’s my first day,” he says about […]
New Antibacterial Coating for Sutures Could Reduce Infections After Surgery
Gregory N. Tew | Via American Chemical Society | September 19, 2012Responding to an urgent need for better antibacterial coatings on surgical sutures, scientists are reporting the discovery of a new coating that is almost 1,000 times more effective than the most widely used commercial coating. Their report appears in ACS’ journal Langmuir. Professor Gregory Tew, who is from UMass-Amherst, and colleagues explain that infection at […]
Doctors, Engineers Team Up to Fight Cancer
Catherine Klapperich | Via BU Today | September 18, 2012Imagine a world where a simple mouth swab could predict lung cancer, a blood test could warn of a recurrence of melanoma, and a rectal scan could tell if you would benefit from a colonoscopy. That world is the vision of the Center for Future Technologies in Cancer Care (FTCC), founded here in July with […]
Seeking Visionary Scientists with Business Sense
Donald Gaver | Via Tulane University | September 18, 2012Donald P. Gaver is looking for serious science students who possess a penchant for taking entrepreneurial risks. Gaver, the Alden J. “Doc” Laborde professor and chair of biomedical engineering, is directing a new interdisciplinary PhD program in bioinnovation at Tulane University. Donald P. Gaver, biomedical engineering professor and director of the interdisciplinary bioinnovation PhD program, […]
Coated Nanoparticles Move Easily into Brain Tissue
Justin Hanes | Via Johns Hopkins CCNE | September 17, 2012Johns Hopkins researchers report they are one step closer to having a drug-delivery system flexible enough to overcome some key challenges posed by brain cancer and perhaps other maladies affecting that organ. In a report published online Aug. 29 in Science Translational Medicine, the Johns Hopkins team says its bioengineers have designed nanoparticles that can safely […]
Commercializing Medical Pesearch: Pitt Building a Bridge to the Investment Community
Pratap Khanwilkar | Via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 16, 2012Pitt’s McGowan Institute of Regenerative Medicine and the Swanson School of Engineering just received a $50,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps to develop a strategy for commercializing a nerve regeneration treatment. That team is led by Kacey Marra, who is laboratory director for plastic surgery research at Pitt. A key player in […]